Lesson 4:TV-Free 3!

Screens Include:

Think about your screen time… Why do you use screens?

When do you use screens?

How much time should you spend each day with screens?

Doctors recommend no more than 2 hours

… but LESS is even better!

Why???

American Academy of Pediatrics and Commitee on Public Education (2001). "Children, adolescents, and television." Pediatrics 107(2): 423-426.

TV-Free 3 Challenge!

3 days without screens!– No TV– No Movies– No Video Games– No Computer Games

(homework on the computer is ok)

TV-TurnoffWeek 2009!

Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness/TURNOFF WEEK 2009

TV-Turnoff Month?? WOW!!

• 140 - 4th, 5th & 6th graders from Washington

• 80% of the students thought they would not last all 30 days…

• BUT, most of them (77%) lasted all month

• 97% of students said they hadso much fun that would do it again!

Brock, B.J. (2006). 30 Days Live: Nutritional and Physical Activity Change During TV/Screen Withdrawal. Eastern Washington University.

Screen-Free Things To Do

• Write Top 10 Screen-free Activities/Action Verbs on a piece of paper

• Pass out the Screen-Free Things To Do page. Have students circle activities they enjoy doing.

Screen Time Tracking Form Instructions

Write how much time you spend with …

Day Day of the

Week

Date Watching: movies,

sports, utube, and TV shows

Playing games:  On-line, X Box, PlayStation, Wii, Nintendo, PS3,

PSP, etc.

Keeping in touch with friends:

texting, emailing, using sites like

Facebook

Cruising the internet for fun

Total Screen Time

Day 1 Friday 04/09/2010 2 hours 2 hours 1½ hours 1 hour 6.5 hours

Day 2 Saturday 04/10/2010 3 hours 2 hours 2 hours 0 hours 7 hours

Day 3 Monday 04/12/2010 2 hours ½ hour 0 hours 1½ hours 4 hours

Three-Day Total: 17.5 hours

Three-Day Average:Take the three-day total and divide by three to get your daily average

6 hours

1.Circle the days you were screen-free (total screen time = 0)

2.How many days were you screen-free? 0

Calculations: Day 3Write how much time you spend with …

Day Day of the Week

Date Watching: movies,

sports, utube, and TV shows

Playing games:  On-line, X Box, PlayStation, Wii, Nintendo, PS3,

PSP, etc.

Keeping in touch with

friends: texting, emailing, using

sites like Facebook

Cruising the internet for

fun

Total Screen Time

Day 1 Friday 04/09/2010 2 hours 2 hours 1½ hours 1 hour 6.5 hours

Day 2 Saturday 04/10/2010 3 hours 2 hours 2 hours 0 hours 7 hours

Day 3 Monday 04/12/2010 2 hours ½ hour 0 hours 1½ hours 4 hours

Three-Day Total:6.5 + 7 + 4 = 17.5

17.5 hours

Three-Day Average:Take the three-day total and divide by three to get your daily average

17.5 ÷ 3 = 5.83 (round up to 6 hours)

6 hours

1.Circle the days you were screen-free (total screen time = 0)

2.How many days were you screen-free? 0

Plan TV-Free 3 Olympics!